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Gaza fisherman braves Israeli navy fire to support his family
Ukraine gets $1.5 billion funding tranche under World Bank programme, PM says
(Reuters) -Ukraine has received a $1.5 billion tranche of funding under a World Bank programme, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Friday, helping it pay for its budget and social spending as it defends itself against the Russian invasion. Ukraine ...
China joins probe into deadly Pakistan suicide attack on its nationals
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Chinese investigators arrived in Pakistan on Friday to join a probe into the killing of five Chinese nationals in a suicide attack, Pakistan's interior ministry said, seeking to stem assaults threatening ...
North Korea rules out any meetings with Japan
By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has no interest in dialogue with Japan, state media KCNA reported on Friday, citing foreign minister Choe Son Hui. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said he wants to hold talks with North Korean ...
Illness, scandal and discord leave UK royal family looking depleted
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - King Charles is due to make his first public appearance at a royal event since his cancer diagnosis on Sunday, but the likely absence of son Prince William and the heir's wife Kate will spotlight how depleted ...
Factbox-Major cases before the US Supreme Court this term
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's current term features major cases involving former President Donald Trump's ballot disqualification, his claim of immunity from prosecution, the abortion pill, gun rights, the power of federal agencies, social ...
India's Congress says facing 'tax terrorism' after second tax notice
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's main opposition party said on Friday it had been asked to pay an additional 18.2 billion rupees ($218 million) in taxes, which it called an attempt by the tax department to financially cripple it ...
Tajikistan detains 9 people over Russian concert hall attack - source
DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan has detained nine people this week suspected of having links to a mass shooting at a Russian concert hall last Friday and also to the militant Islamist group that claimed responsibility, a Tajik security source ...
Kyiv's top general says Ukraine needs fewer troops than expected
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's military will need to mobilise fewer people than initially expected to fend off Russia's two-year-old invasion, Kyiv's top general said on Friday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in December that his military had ...
Kamala Harris pushes the envelope as Biden struggles with some Democrats
By Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) - Hosting rapper Fat Joe at the White House to talk about reforming marijuana laws. Visiting an abortion clinic. Calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the historic Selma bridge in Alabama. Walking the bloodstained crime ...
Romania says it finds drone fragments near border with Ukraine
BUCHAREST (Reuters) -NATO member Romania said it had found fragments of what appeared to be a drone on a farm near the river Danube and the border with Ukraine late on Thursday. Russia has been striking targets in western and central Ukraine with ...